The gruesome discovery of the body of a young woman, bricked up in a luxury apartment, triggers the action in The Woman in the Wall. It’s the fifth book in my series about Copenhagen crime reporter Jensen, and the most sinister to date.
We first meet Jensen in My Name is Jensen (2021), when she has just returned home from a long spell abroad. Lonely and discombobulated, she is struggling to settle in Copenhagen, when she stumbles across a body buried in the snow.
An awful lot has happened since, as loyal readers will know from The Girl in the Photo (2023), Back from the Dead (2024) and Out of the Dark (2025).
By this new book, Jensen has her own place in the city and a five-month-old daughter, Ea, but her sense of displacement has grown.
Why does she find it so hard to make friends? And why is her mother so cagey about her past, including who her father is?
Legendary fantasy author Valde Brix says it’s him, but he has an ulterior motive: he wants Jensen to use her sleuthing skills to find the stalker who is threatening to ruin his life.
When a woman connected to Brix turns up brutally murdered, Jensen and her teenage apprentice, Gustav ,become embroiled in the police investigation. It becomes clear that the stalker won’t stop until Brix is destroyed.
Realising with growing horror that her own loved ones are in mortal danger, Jensen races to uncover a truth so devastating it will shatter everything she thought she knew about family, trust, and survival.
The woman in the wall holds the key, and in the book she becomes symbolic in many ways of the depressingly high incidence of violence against women.
For Jensen it all becomes terrifyingly personal as the stalker closes in.
She has never understood the unusual first name her mother gave her (after four books, we still don’t know what it is) but when the truth comes out, it finally makes perfect sense.
Of course I can’t tell you what that name is. You’re just going to have to read the book for yourself.
This article was originally published in CWA Readers’ News in April 2026
